Moon Knight #10: Why Can’t We Be Friends

What immediately impacted me while reading this issue was Alessandro Cappuccio’s art. A slight mix of traditional American comic art with a splash of Eastern style equals a very unique look overall, but it wasn’t the technical artistic components that shocked me, it was what Cappuccio did with them that really left a mark. The storytelling in this issue is amazing, Cappuccio takes the script and manages to tell the whole thing through the art in his panels, you almost don’t need to read the word balloons (but you really should!), because you feel everything just by looking at the pages. Another aspect that I really appreciated was the page layouts. Here, Cappuccio lays out the pages according to the mood that’s conveyed through the script. It’s more of how the book makes you feel than what actually needs to happen on the pages technically. Even though I’m not a huge fan of some of the designs that Cappuccio uses for his characters, it’s the atmosphere that he and color artist Rachelle Rosenberg convey through their art that makes this issue a really intense experience.

Author Jef MacKay delivers another compelling chapter in this title, building on the events in the previous issues while swinging for the fences in this issue. We’ve got an interesting villain in this issue, one that almost mirrors Moon Knight himself physically in one sense, but one that is almost his identical twin when it comes to aspects of his personality. These dynamics are always entertaining, and MacKay pushes the envelope here, so it’s not just the standard “Bruce Wayne would be the Joker if he had gone insane in a different way when his parents died” trope. It’s a very compelling chapter in this story.